Wrestling Wrap Up: CM Punk Attacks Lawler!

On last night’s RAW, following his big SummerSlam win from the night before, they finally decided to give CM Punk a shove into full-blown heel territory. Although, depending on your individual tolerance level for Lawler these days you might still find what Punk did to Lawler as being “chaotic good.” It’s so funny how much specific rhetoric is sticking these days in the WWE. People’s specific words are getting called back upon and repeated like never before. Of course, that also means that, two weeks (and a SummerSlam match!) later, we’re all still suffering through the epic, landmark Borrow vs. Steal debate regarding Del Rio’s $250,000 Ferrari. I swear, we’ll all get through the entire, tragic life cycle of the Giving Tree before this stupid argument is put to rest.

So last night, Punk was still up Lawler’s butt about what he said back at RAW 1000. And things got awkward.

Really awkward.

Again, it’s funny to watch something like this go down because Lawler really had no counter-argument prepared for this. No one bothered to even write him a decent excuse. I mean, they wrote his whole “Punk turned his back on the entire WWE Universe” line for him so it would only seem fair.

So Punk gymkata’d Lawler in the back of the head last night after Lawler refused to call him the “Best in the World” and then Punk sat there and soaked in the boos. And Cole went radio silent, which was both odd and a f***ing relief. Again, I don’t know why Lawler still resonates as such a pinnacle of crowd approval that he’s often used to get instant heat for people.

But they need Punk to go into Cena’s hometown at Night of Champions as a heel. They don’t want Cena to receive the usual Cena treatment in Boston. And while Cena was really really good on the mic last night, let’s not forget that he was arguing against an ass. He wasn’t arguing against CM Punk from last Summer. And even though we’re all probably happy that Punk has been shaded a bit darker now and that he's not playing the hero in the white hat anymore, he’s still spewing heel spew. He’s still shoving words like “backseat” and “respect” down our throats to the point now where it’s getting annoying. So Punk’s having to play a bit of a character while Cena gets to stand firmly on solid ground.

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That’s not to say that I’m not glad that they’ve officially decided to bring up the fact that Punk, as WWE Champ, hasn’t headlined a PPV since 2011. Cole actually mentioned this at SummerSlam itself and it floored me. Not the stat. We all knew that. But the fact that Cole was saying it.

Of course, all Cole does nowadays is barf out numbers and statistics so he’d probably just run out of facts and figures to share. Last night's RAW was all about the new WWE app (party like it’s 2010!) and Cole screaming that it was ranked #16 on some chart Like his pig had just won some prized...I dunno, pig prize. Don’t pigs get entered in contests for s***? Like...a hog-off? I have no idea. All I know is that people have way too much time on their hands.